Historic Building Activation: Street House Facade Preservation

A continuous row of old street house facades. The washed aggregate floral decorations on the gables, the stucco lettering on the parapet walls, and the columns of the arcade are cleaned and restored, with missing parts filled in with identifiable new materials. Signboards are uniformly changed to small horizontal sizes that do not obscure the facade, and air conditioning units are recessed behind the rooftop. The arcade flooring is re-leveled. Avoid: hanging large signboards and iron grilles all over the facade, repainting the stucco in vivid colors, demolishing arcade columns to replace them with floor-to-ceiling glass, or having air conditioning units and pipes hanging on the main facade.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一整排連續的老街屋立面。山牆上的洗石子花飾、女兒牆的泥塑字樣與騎樓的柱子都被清洗修復,缺損處以可辨識的新料補齊。招牌統一改為橫向小尺寸不遮住立面,冷氣主機退到屋頂後方。騎樓地坪重新整平。避免:在立面上掛滿大型招牌與鐵窗、把泥塑重新粉刷成鮮豔顏色、拆除騎樓柱改成落地玻璃、讓冷氣與管線掛在正立面。